Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World

Description

Globalization creates both risks and opportunities for indigenous peoples. This book describes successful strategies which have been used by indigenous peoples to promote and protect their identities and cultural values in the face of pressures arising from an interconnected world. The text features a cross-discplinary integration which takes a holistic approach - in line with that of indigenous peoples - and includes vignettes of indigenous cultural practices.

DR CLAIRE SMITH is Lecturer in Archaeology at the Flinders University of South Australia. An active field archaeologist, she has had extensive experience with indigenous communities in Australia and Asia. She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Australian Archaeology and Rock Art Research. DR GRAEME K. WARD is a senior research fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. The contributors include DANIEL ASHINI, Vice President of the Innu Nation in western Canada; HOWARD MORPHY, Senior Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University and Professor of Anthropology at University College London;FAYE GINSBURG, director of the Centre for Media, Culture and History at New York University; DR PENNY DRANSART, a lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales; GATJIL DJERRKURA, chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Canberra, Australia; and STEPHEN LORING, a mus